On balance, this was probably the best overall arc for Gosick. The mystery was complex, well-structured and internally consistent. It also – like the Horvitz Arc – tied in directly to the main characters and the larger forces that are impacting their lives. And there’s a growing sense that they […] Read more
Things progressed shockingly quickly in this episode, all things considered. An awful lot of things that hadn’t happened for 13 episodes finally did here, and it was a lot to take in – kind of a character development and plot overload for a show that has generally moved things along […] Read more
Woot, with the second half of Gosick we have a new ED. We get so few multi-cour series nowadays that I forget about OP/ED changes. In any case, I liked the new one quite a bit – the song is pretty good, a sort of “Greensleeves”-ish medieval sounding ballad – […] Read more
It’s been the case since the beginning that Gosick was better as a character study than as a mystery, so this week’s episode should, on paper, have been among the best. And as it happens, it may have been my favorite of the series so far. Victorique and Kujo may […] Read more
Any episode where Victorique sings is going to have that as the headline moment, but there was an awful lot else to recommend this excellent offering, one of the best of the series so far. The primary role of the episode was to shed some background on Grevil, and his […] Read more
Apparently not earthquake, tsunami or even nuclear crisis can stop Victorique, so we get a fresh episode of Gosick to take our minds off our worry. A little late, perhaps, but welcome nonetheless. Given that this arc – especially this episode – is primarily given over to developing Kujo and […] Read more
This is a nice trend – Gosick was excellent again this week. Though the mystery lacked the personal urgency of the last one (at least until the end) it was still interesting – like something out of a “Doctor Who” episode from the 70’s. As usual, though, it was the […] Read more
OK, I have to get this gripe out of the way – why the hell didn’t Ambrose and Grevil do anything when Victorique grabbed Kujo after the bridge collapsed? Why are two grown men leaving it to a tiny little girl to keep Kujo from falling – and how exactly […] Read more
The evidence continues to build that either BONES has figured this adaptation out, or that the material simply started getting better. Either way, this episode continues a very positive trend for Gosick. Both in terms of plot and atmosphere this arc has clearly been the best of the series so […] Read more
For my money, that was definitely the best episode of Gosick so far. Obviously Victorique was preposterously kawaii, but that’s happened pretty much every week. The difference this time was that the plot finally started to catch up to the character interaction as a driver of interest, and that’s an […] Read more